RP @angryhacademic.bsky.social: Fun fact: to facilitate traumatic insemination, female bedbugs evolved an abdominal groove to direct the males penis so sperm can enter their "paragenital" system All the more bizarre as females have a perfectly good gen…
Fun fact: to facilitate traumatic insemination, female bedbugs evolved an abdominal groove to direct the males penis so sperm can enter their "paragenital" system All the more bizarre as females have a perfectly good genital tract europepmc.org/backend…
#bedbug #genome in new @VectorBase release @Arthropod_i5K http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10165 and they have colour preferences http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36128646
Don't let the bed bugs bite! Genome out today in @NatureComms http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160202/ncomms10165/full/ncomms10165.html